Mark Twain: Do not tell fish stories where the people...

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Quote: The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!
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Albert Einstein
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Quote: You know me better than you think, you know, and you shall know me better yet.
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C. S. Lewis
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Quote: As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
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Oscar Wilde
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Quote: If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
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Quote: America is the spirit of human exploration distilled.
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Quote: Some people write heavily, some write lightly. I prefer the light approach because I believe there is a great deal of false reverence about. There is too much solemnity and intensity in dealing with sacred matters; too much speaking in holy tones.
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C. S. Lewis
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Quote: I am not a fan of people who abuse service staff. In fact, I find it intolerable. It’s an unpardonable sin as far as I’m concerned, taking out personal business or some other kind of dissatisfaction on a waiter or busboy.
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Quote: The American people abhor a vacuum.
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Theodore Roosevelt
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Quote: Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.
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Mahatma Gandhi
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Quote: The smell of her hair, the taste of her mouth, the feeling of her skin seemed to have got inside him, or into the air all round him. She had become a physical necessity.
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George Orwell
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Quote: One of the things that made the Black Muslim movement grow was its emphasis upon things African. This was the secret to the growth of the Black Muslim movement. African blood, African origin, African culture, African ties. And you’d be surprised – we discovered that deep within the subconscious of the black man in this country , he is still more African than he is American.
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Malcolm X
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Quote: Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.
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Mahatma Gandhi
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Quote: Society teaches us that having feelings and crying is bad and wrong. Well, that’s baloney, because grief isn’t wrong. There’s such a thing as good grief. Just ask Charlie Brown.
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Michael Scott
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Quote: A man’s true delight is to do the things he was made for.
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Marcus Aurelius
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Quote: It is true of the Nation, as of the individual, that the greatest doer must also be a great dreamer.
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Theodore Roosevelt
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Quote: Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
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Albert Einstein
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Quote: When your army has crossed the border, you should burn your boats and bridges, in order to make it clear to everybody that you have no hankering after home.
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Quote: For me, the different religions are beautiful flowers from the same garden, or they are branches of the same majestic tree. Therefore, they are equally true, though being received and interpreted through human instruments equally imperfect.
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Mahatma Gandhi
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Quote: If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.
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Buddha
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Quote: Believers, look up – take courage. The angels are nearer than you think.
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Billy Graham
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Quote: If you have been placed in a position above others, are you automatically going to behave like a despot? Remember who you are and whom you govern – that they are kinsmen, brothers by nature, fellow descendants of Zeus.
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Marcus Aurelius
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Quote: When you are right, you have no need to be angry. When you are wrong, you have no right to be angry.
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Mahatma Gandhi
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Quote: It is not known precisely where angels dwell whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.
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Voltaire
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Quote: Sequoia seeds have flat wings, and glint and glance in their flight like a boy's kite.
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John Muir
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Quote: The cyclic universe theory predicts no gravitational waves from the early universe.
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Stephen Hawking
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Quote: I have so much that I want to do. I hate wasting time.
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Stephen Hawking
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Quote: Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Quote: What do people mean when they say, 'I am not afraid of God because I know He is good'? Have they never even been to a dentist?
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C. S. Lewis
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Quote: The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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Voltaire
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Quote: Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.
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